Sunday, August 26, 2018

Charlie Hebdo's worse than ever

Charlie Hebdo's cover about the bridge collapse in Italy. I have no idea what the joke is here.

A few years ago, after some young fellows shot up the Charlie Hebdo office, I wisely wrote:
It's too bad for them, but if those guys were really France's greatest cartoonists, their deaths might be a boon to cartooning as an art form. It gets them out of the way and hopefully makes room for someone who can actually draw and has something funny or intelligent to say.
They're still stupid and unfunny, but the drawing is somewhat better. Look at the bridge and the wrecked car. But what do those dumb Frenchies think is clever here?

After those guys shot up the office in 2015, some argued that Charlie Hebdo was actually ANTI-racist, but Americans just couldn't understand the French sense of humor. Which was nonsense. I've seen enough Jerry Lewis movies to understand the way these people think. I've seen French comedies and there's nothing esoteric about them. If anything, the French are dumber than we are.

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